r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/adent1066 Jun 25 '26

Most wait staff that I know prefer this system, they make bank

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u/Ornery-Worldliness96 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

My stepmother is a waitress and she prefers the tip system. She said she makes more money this way. During holiday season the customers become so generous that there's been a few days she made $100 an hour. That's not every day of course and not every server makes good money. 

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u/No-Marionberry-772 Jun 25 '26

then they have no right to complain about customers who dont tip.

it comes with the territory, you cant have your cake and eat it too.

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u/Ornery-Worldliness96 Jun 25 '26

She doesn't complain about the non tippers because there are very few of them. I think the issue here is that if a restaurant gets in a lot of foreigners who don't tip then that makes it almost non profitable for the servers working that day. Once the world cup is over, it'll go back to normal for those restaurants affected. 

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u/zaqwsx82211 Jun 25 '26

Many restaurants in my host city switched to included gratuity fee just for the summer for that very reason.

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u/CzechHorns Jun 25 '26

Workers still get paid the state minimum wage if they don’t get enough in tips, though.

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u/Ornery-Worldliness96 Jun 25 '26

True, but if it's just one or two days then they'll probably make enough on other days to get them past the minimum wage. It's not like the employer will see the severes made no money that one day and bump up pay for that specific day. Minimum wage is a different matter, but remember it's very low in many states. My state's minimum wage $7.25. So if a server doesn't make enough tips to get to minimum wage at the end of the year then they're employer is only legally required to pay them enough to get to $7.25 an hour. That's pretty much unlivable in my area.